Quantifying Effort in American Football
Emily Shteynberg, Luke Snavely, Sheryl Solorzano
Introduction:
Quantifying effort for running backs from the NFL 2022 season
Why is this important?
Traditional stats miss the “how” behind play values such as yards gained, expected added points, etc.
Evaluating running backs’ effort and performance
Data: 2022 NFL Season
Data description
Game, play, player, tracking data from Weeks 1-9 [^1]
Running plays where a running back (RB) is the ball carrier
Trimmed each play to frames between handoff and end of play
Relevant data pre-processing steps
Fatigue (back up vs starting running backs)
Plan of Action
Completed Steps